I started planning this build a few months ago. Its a bike for a kid that has been there for others doing the right thing. Often when its hard to do so. What i didnt know is it would come together just as his dad got ill. Being able to build this bike and give it him as been a blessing. Now along with it i can give his dad and family my prayers.

I've only recently started to understand the FUN of the classic cruiser. It all started on a weekend in California and getting my first $40 used beach cruiser on craigslist.

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Hello there from Greenlake. Just picked up this 1964 Schwinn Typhoon last Friday. I inverted the bars and turned the seat post around and that's it so far. Ape hangers and chrome straight springer forks sre in the mail. Man it's nice out there today. Glad to see the sun for a change right?

This is a fixie I gave to a kid who returned a stolen bike after he had put a lot of his own time into fixing up the stolen bike. It's basically the same bike but better. I told him that it was my way of making sure no good deed was left unanswered.

This is ride your bike to work week. I usually walk as strange as that may sound for a guy who also bikes. It is interesting to me that for a MANY trips if you have a bike it makes no sense to drive a car, because the hassle of the car, seatbelt, traffic, parking means the bike wins every time. On my walk it's almost the same thing for a bike compared to walking. I realized I hadn't put a picture up of this build yet.

I'd been thinking about a Kobra build for a few months and had accumulated the fenders/tank/guard/chain ring.. A few weeks ago a girvin elite showed up for a killer price. When US choppers hit with a wheel sale I guess I was all in. The fact Carol Shelby passed away has made the build feel different for me. He was a great man far beyond motorsports, as if that wasn't enough. He changed our culture, he showed us that we could take the tried and true physics and engineering while working with little more than the back yard with hand tools and show the world how it was done! In fact have the world leaders bow out instead of face the little guy who knew what he was doing in competition.